Gifts and Gambits

12/24/20 • 23 min

Learn about the queen’s gambit opening strategy, the indian defense and Paul Morphy. Also the psychology of gift giving with Dr. Jeff Galak, a marketing professor at Carnegie Mellon who studies consumer behavior and runs the youtube channel Data Demystified.

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Prodigy - Gifts and Gambits

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Speaker 100:00:01.120

Prodigy is a production of I Heart Radio. Since today is Christmas Eve, I decided to do something a little different. The first episode of this podcast was about female chess prodigies, which happened to coincide with the show on Netflix called The Queen's Gambit. It quickly became Netflix's most watched series ever and reignited America's interest in the game. Sales of chess sets have increased up to tenfold, and chess dot com has seen millions